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Class Guide » Electronic Books & CollectionsElectronic BooksEbrary A collection of over 30,000 books from over 150 publishers covering all academic disciplines. Users must download and install the Ebrary software to view the books. NetLibrary A collection of over 24,000 electronic books that are searchable and readable online. To create a personal list of books, make notes or in other ways customize NetLibrary for your own use, create a Free Account. ACLS Humanities E-books A collection of over 1,500 books in the humanities from the early 20th century up to the present selected by the American Council of Learned Societies and made available electronically. Bartleby.com: Great Books Online Books24x7 Business Pro, IT Pro, and Engineering Pro collections provide more than 8000 full text books. BroncoNet ID required for login. Complete Works of William Shakespeare "...the Web's first edition of the Complete Works of William Shakespeare." Based on the Complete Moby (tm) Shakespeare. Complete works can be searched. Credo Reference (Formerly Xreferplus) Full text online from about 240 encyclopedias, dictionaries and other reference books all cross-referenced. Search a topic, build a concept map or browse information sources organized by subject. Find text, images, sound files, sortable data tables and more. Early English Books Online EEBO consists of digitized versions of microfilms from two sets which WMU owns: Early English books, 1475-1640 (Microfilms AC 1 2nd floor, Waldo), and Early English books, 1641-1700 (Microfilms AC 2). Start with the EEBO search engine to locate a text. If it has not been digitized, search WestCat by title or author and use the microfilm. The English Short Title Catalogue 1473-1800 on CD-Rom (Rare Books Room CD Z 21) is a useful index to this source. Gale Virtual Reference Library Online reference books in business, education, law, medicine, religion and social science. Gutenberg-e A collaboration between Columbia University Press and the American Historical Association that promotes electronic publication of prize-winning scholarly books. Besides the text of the books extra features include hyperlinks to supplementary literature, images, music, video, and related Web sites. Internet Archive: Text Archive An open access archive of books with a goal of over a million digitized books, with 30,000 available in mid 2006. Internet Public Library: Online Texts A list of links to specific books and other electronic book and text collections. National Academies Press The National Academies Press is providing free online access to 3,000 of their books in a wide variety of subject areas from the sciences to Public Policy. The print books are available for purchase. Online Books Page An index to over 25,000 free books on the Web. Project Gutenberg Safari Tech Books Online A collection of online technical books including leading-edge computer technologies. Electronic Text CollectionsAlex Catalogue of Electronic Texts A full-text indexed collection of classic American and English literature as well as Western philosophy in the public domain. Black Drama This full-text resource consists of 1,200 plays from the mid-1800s to the present written by 200 African or African-American playwrights. Each play is indexed by keyword and by numerous subjects. Enhanced by reference materials, ancillary information and images. Updated quarterly. Chadwyck-Healy Literature Collections Full text of English and American poetry, drama, and fiction from different time periods. The Literature Online database organized by collections. Cornell Electronic Text Center: E-text links Links to selected electronic text collections available on the Internet, as well as information about electronic texts, catalogs and lists, and how to create and analyze electronic texts. Electronic Texts and Primary Sources A list of electronic text sites from the Digital Librarian. English Language Resources The University of Virginia Library makes a number of collections available to the public including: The Modern English Collection 1500-present, British Poetry 1780-1920, and more. Latin American Women Writers When complete, this resource will contain approximately 100,000 pages of prose, poetry and drama by women writers from Mexico, Central, and South America from the colonial period to the present. Currently there are about 4200 pages of prose and poetry available. Drama will be added next. Literature Online (LION) A searchable full-text database of more than 350,000 works of English and American poetry, drama and prose, literary criticism from over 200 literature journals and various reference resources. Includes biographies, bibliographies, and links to Web sites. Online Medieval & Classical Library Historical Documents CollectionsAfrican American Newspapers: The 19th Century Eventually this database will contain the full-text of major 19th century African-American newspapers providing first-hand stories by way of biographies as well as statistics, essays, editorials, and advertisements serving as primary source historical documentation. Search individual newspapers or group together. America's Historical Newspapers 1690-1922 Full text images of articles from early American newspapers for over 700 newspapers from 24 Eastern states (not Michigan). American Civil War: Letters & Diaries This full text database includes more than 100,000 pages written by over 2,000 persons, primarily letters and diaries from the Civil War. Also includes biographies and an extensive bibliography. American Film Scripts Online When complete, this will include more than 1,000 film scripts as well as detailed information about the scenes, characters, and people related to the scripts. Searches can be restricted quite precisely - to criminal characters or interior urban settings in the 1950s, for example. You can also sometimes compare different versions of a film script. American Memory Multimedia collections from the Library of Congress of digitized documents, photographs, sound recordings, motion pictures, and texts. Over 100 collections, including, for example, African-American pamphlets, Chautauqua flyers, Depression photographs, Coca-Cola advertising, and the papers of Alexander Graham Bell, to name just a few. Avalon Project at Yale Law School: Documents in Law, History and Diplomacy A digital collection of important documents in American history, politics and government from the 18th century to the present day. Black Thought and Culture A digital collection of monographs, essays, articles, speeches, and interviews by leaders within the black community from the earliest times to 1975. Documenting the American South A collection of full-text sources on Southern history, literature, and culture from the colonial period through the first decades of the 20th century; hosted by the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Library. E-collections at the Center for Research Libraries Early Encounters in North America: Peoples Cultures, and the Environment This full text database includes more than 100,000 pages of letters, diaries and other accounts of traders, explorers, native peoples, and others from 1534 to 1850. Indexed by place, year, peoples, cultural events, and other categories. Historic Documents Series Published annually since 1972, each volume of the Historic Documents Series includes approximately 100 documents covering the most significant events of the year. These documents range from presidential speeches, international agreements, and Supreme Court decisions to U.S. governmental reports, scientific findings, and cultural discussions. Historical Documents Illustrated Civil War Newspapers and Magazines Contains full-text articles from 49 periodicals, including 15 campaign newspapers, published from 1860 to 1865. Many of the publications are rare and hard to find, and include source materials from museum, library, and private collections, including the American Antiquarian Society. The database can be searched by date or topic, or one can browse each individual publication. The database also contains a sample selection of 300 Union and 300 Confederate letters from the larger database, American Civil War: Letters & Diaries. In the First Person: Index to Letters, Diaries, Oral Histories, and Other Personal Narratives This index lets users perform searches within letters, diaries, oral histories, memoirs, and autobiographies that are freely available on the Web and in Alexander Street databases. Users can access thousands of personal narratives in English from archives and repositories everywhere. Includes links to full text, audio, and video whenever available. Making of America (Cornell University) Making of America (University of Michigan) A digital library of primary sources in American social history from the ante-bellum period through Reconstruction. The collection is particularly strong in education, psychology, American history, sociology, religion, and science and technology. Includes over 4 million page images, representing close to 13,000 volumes of primary source materials, including books and periodicals. Cornell University has focused on the major journal literature of the period. The University of Michigan has focused on monographs. North American Immigrant Letters, Diaries, and Oral Histories A digital collection of letters, diaries, pamphlets, autobiographies, and oral histories of immigrants to America and Canada. The 100,000 pages of materials cover 1840 to 1980 and represent immigrants from many countries. North American Indian Thought and Culture This digital collection of texts and images contains more than 119,000 pages of personal stories, many previously unpublished or rare. Virtually all Indian nations (approximately 500) are covered. This database now contains the WPA’s Indian-Pioneer History Collection which includes information, collected mostly through oral history interviews, on American Indian life. North American Women's Letters and Diaries Over 150,000 pages of published and unpublished diaries and letters by over 1,300 women in the US and Canada from the colonial period to 1950. All ethnic groups, ages, classes, and geographical regions are included. Users can search by keyword, time period, place, marital status, nationality, and other variables. SunSite Digital Collections Links to digital collections from the Berkeley Digital Library. Women and Social Movements in the United States, 1600-2000: Scholar's Edition A collection of full text books, articles, documents and images of American women's reform movements over the last 400 years including special subjects such as African-American Women, the Chicago World's Fair of 1893 and the Equal Rights Debate in the 1920s. Ask A LibrarianMaira Bundza, E-mail: maira.bundza@wmich.edu |
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